Moby dick

Herman Melville delivers some of his best literary work in this gripping tale of tragedy and vengeance. The story follows Captain Ahab on an obsessive quest to destroy the unruly White Whale that ravaged the Captain's ship on a previous voyage, leaving him with one leg. Today, Moby Dick remains one of the greatest classics in English literature. A staple for any teen or young adult reader.

Salt to the sea

ahun 1945 . Perang Dunia II merambah Prusia Timur. Jutaan pengungsi pergi mencari tempat aman. Di antara mereka terdapat empat orang dengan kisah dan rahasia yang berbeda. Takdir mempertemukan keempatnya di Wilhelm Gustloff, kapal megah yang menjadi tempat mereka menggantungkan harapan bersama lebih dari sepuluh ribu penumpang lainnya. Tapi sebelum kebebasan sempat diraih, tragedi besar pun te…

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile r…

Horrible Histories : The Terrible Tudors

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9780590552905

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What it was like to be a viking

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9781800902121

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104 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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Max in the house of spies; a tale of world war ii

Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a…

Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition

Tells the story of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and his failed attempt to cross the coldest and windiest continent on earth. Written in graphic-novel format.

Pulang

Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil politik Indonesia bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, seorang mahasiswa Prancis yang ikut demonstrasi melawan pemerintah Prancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas menerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Dimas merasa cemas dan gamang. Bersama puluhan wartawan da…

A Woman Of Bangkok

Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, A Woman of Bangkok was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature s long line of b…

All The King's Men

When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…